Contributors

 

Marie Roux (London, UK)
Marie Roux is London based photographer and writer originally from Nice, France. Roux holds MA in Photography at London College of Communications and BA in Fine Art New Media at Chelsea College of Art. She has written for several publications as well as online magazine London Essence. Roux has also documenting events at Café Oto, London’s cutting edge venue for the last three years. marieroux.info
 

Marie Roux’s article:

Art Marathon: Frieze Art Fair 2012 [Slide Show]
Posted on 19 October 2012

Frieze Art Fair 2012 report: From blind dates to inspiring masters
Posted on 18 October 2012

The 10th edition of Frieze art fair closed its doors on Sunday night, comprising this year of two tents on opposite side of Regent’s Park. Frieze 2012 gathered 175 galleries from 35 countries surrounded by outside artworks selected this year by Yorkshire Sculpture Park director Clare Lilley. Frieze Masters showcased 79 galleries with works ranging from antiquity, Renaissance masters through to 20th century art. The veritable feast for the eyes offered an escape from the frenzy of the contemporary art tent across the park.[…]
 

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Hana Sakuma (Kobe, Japan)
Hana Sakuma was born in Japan in 1970. Based in London between 1993 and 2010, she currently lives in Kobe and works at Kobe Design University, Japan. She holds a PhD at Chelsea College of Art & Design and a MFA in Sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art in London. She works as an artist, researcher and art writer.

Hana Sakuma’s article:

Focus Japan part II: An Uncertain Future- Art after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Posted on 2 August 2011

The art scene in Japan has been changing dramatically since the recent chain of catastrophic events – the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant meltdown – which filled news networks around the world. These particularly devastated the Tohoku area, the seacoast areas of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures. According to the Agency for Cultural Affairs, five national heritage sites were affected, such as the Zuigan-ji Temple in the Miyagi Prefecture, as well as damaging 143 important cultural properties.[…]
 

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Yam Lau (Toronto, Canada)
Yam Lau was born in Hong Kong and received an MFA from the University of Alberta. Now based in Toronto, Lau has exhibited his work widely in Canada, USA, Europe and China. He is associate professor of painting at York University, Toronto, and is a co-founder of the community based art project “Donkey Institute of Contemporary Art” in Beijing, China. Lau writes about art and design regularly. yamlau.com

Yam Lau’s article:

Conversation on “Sediment” – an exhibition of artist’s bookwork and book support or an exercise in exhibition arrangement?
Posted on 22 February 2012

Yam Lau [YL]: I would like to begin by giving some context for this interview on the exhibition at G Gallery, Toronto entitled, Sediment. I’m Yam Lau, one of the artists in the exhibition and I’m sitting in the gallery with Shane Krepakevich and Michelle McGeean, the two curators of the exhibition. Because I spent a few days setting up my piece in the exhibition, I saw how the exhibition was put together, how the whole thing unfolds. For this reason I think I have a different perspective from the other artists who only discovered the show and in particular the way their work was treated at the opening. […]
 

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Yaniya Lee (Montréal, Canada)
Yaniya Lee is an arts writer based in Montréal. She received BAS in English literature at Concordia University in Montréal. She writes for Montréal Mirror. Lee is currently working on her project compiling an oral history of Montréal in the 90′s. yaniyalee.com

Yaniya Lee’s article:

Review: Shilpa Gupta – Will we ever be able to mark enough?
Posted on 28 November 2011

In a rapidly globalizing world, intensified human migrations have brought issues of identity, culture and homeland to the forefront of many’s political agenda, and with them the fears and insecurities of change. Shilpa Gupta’s exhibition Will we ever be able to mark enough? at Darling Foundry sharply addresses some of our most recurrent anxieties for the issues above, particularly regarding border security. The Mumbai artist worked in collaboration with Montreal curator Renée Baert to present her first Canadian solo show, a selection of recent pieces as well as pivotal new works, created specifically for this show. […]

Review: Richard Serra “Junction/Cycle”
Posted on 16 November 2011

Richard Serra has filled Gagosian’s 2500 square foot New York Gallery with two recent monumental works for his current show “Junction/Cycle”. Both “Junction” (2011) and “Cycle” (2010) are winding compositions of 13 foot tall curved and leaning slabs of weatherproof steel. Together, they transform the vast gallery into a maze of corridors, hidden clearings and unexpected exits. […]

Review: The Fox
Posted on 11 September 2011

In 1924 began a romantic liaison between 35-year-old husband, father and Marburg University philosophy teacher >Martin Heidegger, and Hannah Arendt, his 18 year-old student. By 1933, Heidegger had joined the Nazi Party and Arendt, a jew, fled to France to escape religious persecution. Utilizing these accounts and more as premise, G Gallery in Toronto exhibited last month the work of four artists. Oskar Hüber, Yam Lau, Sophie Nys and Kevin Rodgers sparsely filled the brightly lit white space of G Gallery with emblematic objects, videos and installation works. […]

Review: With the Void
Posted on 26 August 2011

“We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.” * This month Diaz Contemporary adorned its walls with works that, at first glance, echo ghostly epitaphs from the glorious manifestos of American abstract painters. On closer inspection the three-person show, made up of Stephen Andrews, Pierre Dorion and Dara Gellman, rises beyond the oppositions between figurative and non, into velvety sensory aesthetics. […]

Review: Pierrick Sorin “Une vie bien remplie”
Posted on 18 August 2011

Une Vie Bien Remplie is a collection of works by French videographer Pierrick Sorin, currently at the Darling Foundry. The six pieces on show form a comprehensive twenty-year overview of the artist’s career, spanning most of his thematic realm. Sorin reaches high levels of self-contemplation with each of his films and videos in order to subvert his own artistic relevance and project the buoyancy of his humor, which fluctuates between subtlety and satire. […]

Review: Showing Stuff in a Big Room
Posted on 9 August 2011

Mathieu Lefevre at Galerie Division is effectively “Showing Stuff in a Big Room”. Whereas unpretentious exhibition titles often suggest modesty in the artist, Lefevre is putting some big cards on the table, playing against the plausibly inescapable boundaries of conceptual art. This show claims a much wider appeal than the usual art world’s initiated few, fighting conceptual dreariness with the weapon of humor. […]

Review: Sculpture – Ludisme
Posted on 21 July 2011

Derived from the Latin verb ludere, to play, Galerie Sas has appropriately titled its current exhibition of three-dimensional works. Sculpture-Ludisme assembles art pieces by Patrick Bérubé, Catherine Bolduc, Éric Cardinal, Laurent Craste, Marc Dulude, Peter Gnass, Fred Laforge and Karine Payette in this playful, surreal and wildly chromatic show that comfortably straddles the line between serious and over-the-top. While all the works genuinely represent the approach of each artist, overall this show is delightfully coherent. […]

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